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Tangipahoa Parish deputies arrest two men accused of computer-aided solicitation of minor
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HAMMOND — The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office arrested two people for computer-aided solicitation of minors and indecent behavior with a juvenile earlier this week, including a convicted sex offender from Lafayette.
Oran Joseph Thomas, 45, and Joshua Landry, 35, were both arrested by deputies in Tangipahoa Parish.
Thomas, who was convicted of a sex crime involving a a child in 2010, was arrested Thursday after planning to meet a person he believed to be a child for sex. He was also arrested Thursday for attempted carnal knowledge of a juvenile.
Landry, a Hammond man, was arrested after he also engaged in illegal sexual conversations with someone he thought was a child for several days.
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